In article , Char Jackson
wrote:


just about every pc these days has wifi already built in.

laptops yes, "gaming" motherboards maybe, but bog standard PCs no.

bog standard pcs yes.

Andy was exactly right.

not all of them (some are junk)

A desktop PC without WiFi is junk? Hardly.

but it's more common than not.

On low end and midrange desktop PCs, WiFi isn't common at all. Why would
it be?

because houses are not normally wired for ethernet and consumers might
want to have a computer in a room other than where the cable modem
comes in without running unsightly ethernet cables between rooms and
floors.

also because wifi is widely used for many other things than just the
internet, such as connecting to mobile devices, cameras, iot devices
and many other things.

not having wifi is a significant drawback.

corporate issued pcs might not have wifi, but that's a very different
scenario and the pc in question isn't one. they may also be locked down
in all sorts of ways, such as disallowing installing apps and/or having
existing ports blocked.

without wifi, a desktop (or laptop) will be unable to
directly transfer content to/from a mobile device.

USB is even easier, and every PC has that.

nowhere near as easy as wireless.

not only is there no need to fuss with cables, but p2p wifi will
auto-configure itself without any user interaction or the need for a
separate base station.

even a $10 raspberry pi has wifi:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/

That's not what people think of when they think of a desktop PC.

the point is that if something that sells for just $10 has wifi, then
something that sells for 10x that and certainly 100x that absolutely
should.